Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. With users' increasing confidence in participating together online, there's never been a better time to take a leap and try a new tactic to engage a group. Here are ten things that have worked for us well in the past: Conduct a live online interview with one or more interesting figures to warm the group up to the event & to get a feel for the

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 7, 2009

If you follow the story out of India this morning, you’ll see the seed of what I predict will be known as the great offshoring crash of 2009. No doubt, authorities there will spin the Satyam crash as a one-man Indian Enron, but make no mistake: this will sting every player – investors and western companies dependent on offshore – like a Sambol #5 Hot Curry on a Lake Wobegon palate.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

This is a cross-post of an article written for the NTEN newsletter and blog. Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Don't let your data fall victim! Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online.

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Forum One

JANUARY 25, 2009

Beth Kanter outlines on her blog a great framework for mapping out a social media strategy - summarized here: 1. Identify Objectives (what you want to accomplish - stated as SMART objectives). 2. Identify the Audience (who must you reach, what do they care about?). 3. Integrate (how to connect your various online efforts, and online+offline activities?).

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Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Forum One

JANUARY 25, 2009

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has launched a new initiative called the Innovation Exchange , to build and strengthen a network of innovators who will develop and adopt environment-friendly business initiatives. EDF has for some years done important work with individual firms to find creative solutions to reducing environmental impact - such as with MacDonalds, FedEx, Starbucks and others.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2009

This looks like a fascinating event to take place in South Africa this October: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy. They describe the theme of 'knowledge economy' here: "The emergence of economies based on the production, distribution, use of knowledge and information was charted by the OECD (1996) in the report "The Knowledge Economy" Economies are more and more becoming reliant upon an effective gathering and utilization of knowledge and the creation and shar

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

Those interested in domestic health, global health, population issues, or international development would do well to join an online conversation series hosted by the Population Reference Bureau. PRB is giving interested audiences direct access to experts from around the world for an hour or so of high-quality Q&A. Consider the topic for tomorrow, 1/22, at 1:00 EST: " Birth Defects: A Hidden Toll for Developing Countries.

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

As Obama raised his hand and took the oath of office around noon yesterday the new administration launched its new version of the WhiteHouse.gov web site. It includes a new " White House Blog ", and the first posting shows some smart thinking about how a government entity can use a blog. We think there is going to be an increase in interest in effective use of blogs for the government sector, so here are a few quick impressions of what is effective in this first blog post: * Personal: ?

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Forum One

JANUARY 8, 2009

I recently signed up for GovLoop (a government 2.0 social network on Ning) and promptly received a welcome message encouraging me to get involved. Receiving a welcome message within the first 24 hours of joining often makes a huge difference encouraging new community members to actively participate. A friendly, informal, and light-hearted tone helps people get comfortable and points out specific actions users can take.

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

US Agency for International Development has run an interesting contest to identify innovative ideas in mobile computing for international development. They got some interesting nominations and have identified the top three winners : * Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Response. * ClickDiagnostics: A Micro-Entrepreneurship Based Model to Transform Healthcare Delivery through Mobile Telemedicine. * Ushahidi v2 - Mobile.Crisis.Reporting.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 2, 2009

You probably read about all the Microsoft Zunes that stopped working at midnight on New Year’s eve. Here is the code that caused them to break. Can you spot the bug? $10 starbucks card to the first correct comment posted.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 31, 2009

Even Google has me #1 for advocating Facebook for your business. So when I came across an essay saying the exact opposite I let my comment rip. Actually the essay by Raghav Singh on ERE.Net is definitely worth the read.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 29, 2009

For a long time I’ve struggled with the ‘Leadership’ section of the Tempworks website and why it was that we only put the bios of certain people there. It just didn’t seem fair or meritocratic, not in the least – in fact several of the most intense employees were not listed there. So I’m changing that by leaving it to each employee to get list there or not.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 29, 2009

Sanity-Check writes “In short, tech recruiters are non-technical dolts who use bad metrics to squeeze the highest dollar out of the companies they're contracted to while alienating otherwise prospective talent. … Is it really worth $10,000 to not sift through resumes?” I love the way Sanity writes but reject the premise of his question. Sifting resumes is a tiny part of what a good recruiter does.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 29, 2009

[link] Having someone threaten his life last year wasn’t enough, it took getting spat upon for Tech Crunch entrepreneur Michael Arrington to decide to hang it up. I’m an avid reader of TechCrunch and keep it book-marked on my smart-phone reader. I’ve gotten the sense over the last year that the joy of covering tech was no longer there, and Michael’s letter pretty much explains it.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 29, 2009

This just in from Deutsche Bank: “The worst perm declines in the last cycle were -59% in 1Q02, four quarters into 10 quarters of YoY declines. RHI's perm trends are -56% in January after only 3 quarters of declines. Temp trends in January are -26% versus the worst quarter last cycle of -32% (also 1Q02). Looking at the BLS data this cycle versus last, this cycle looks to be at least a year longer than the last in terms of reaching an inflection point.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 28, 2009

This morning I misidentified On24 as the virtual trade show vendor that I had a bad experience with. After the post I got this message/comment from On24. Hi Gregg, I'd love to chat with you about this event and your experience. Can you give me the link to this show? As far as I know we're not hosting an Internet Marketing show today. Our goal is to provide an exceptional experience for participants, so your comments are very valuable to us.

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Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 28, 2009

With the high cost and increasingly poor attendance at live trade shows, I would love it if somehow it could all happen virtually and periodically scout out such solutions as I did this morning in attending the internet marketing show hosted on On24’s virtual platform. But instead of finding it a quick way to meet vendors or attend sessions, it turned out to be quite awkward.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 27, 2009

Equity analyst Paul Ginocchio sell-rates Robert Half (RHI) on a predicted –23% organic revenue decline for 1q2009. Here’s their press release: Our industry contacts suggest January has worsened versus December Ahead of Robert Half's (Sell rated) 4Q results tomorrow after the close, we have made a number of calls to our staffing industry contacts. Based on a handful of conversations, we believe that US YoY declines in January are worse than December's.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 27, 2009

So you spent a lot of time on Linked-In creating a profile, joining groups, making a few contacts and maybe even paying for premium, and now no one is spending much time there. Did you waste your time? I don’t think so. Linked-In was training wheels for web 2.0. If you hadn’t done Linked-In, you probably wouldn’t understand Facebook and interactive marketing as well as you do.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 26, 2009

[link] “Red Alert for Local Social Missions” reads the headline. “Our phone is ringing off the hook” … “200 calls every morning” from young people looking for help in finding a job. “But with the meltdown of temporary staffing, these social agencies are inundated with people who can’t find work.” StaffingTalk take: government policies to help the poor invariably do more harm than good.

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Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 25, 2009

[link] When Apple ran its now famous Super-Bowl ad for the MacIntosh in 1984, I didn't know what to think. I had spent the previous two years building my business with my nose down writing mainframe assembler code for a French airline cooperative (SITA). I had no use for the PC revolution which I saw as immature and unworthy of business applications.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 23, 2009

If you are shopping for a vendor management system (VMS) to help improve your contingent staffing spend, consider: Functionality a. Job order management. Does the system efficiently allow job orders to be entered online and optionally routed for approval? Does it control which staffing vendor(s) receive the job order and when? Focus on systems with mature order management processes. b.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 22, 2009

If you are shopping for staffing recruitment software, consider: Front/Back office integration. Favor solutions that fully integrate the front and back office processes from recruitment and customer relationship all the way through to payroll and invoicing. Web-based. Most convenient are solutions that can be used from any device or location from in-house desktops to mobile devices or internet browsers.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 22, 2009

With a promise of a quick return to muckraking Obama’s economic plans and chronicling its impact on the staffing industry, StaffingTalk takes a break today to salute the Obama couple. I’m happy for them and am glad for the example they set for family values.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 21, 2009

Sometimes I feel bad for staffing software programmers that work for me. I look at what they do and it’s slap a control onto a form and click publish and they’re done. It’s not like the mainframe days when you really had to muscle binary instructions into a patch panel to get anything working. Today they have it so easy. Then again I look at what they use for version control from Microsoft, and I pine for the old days.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 21, 2009

This is from Tempworks CTO, Paul Czywczynski: Just saw you blog post and wanted to post an opinion. I don't see the things we do today any easier than in the mainframe days. My dad taught me machine code back in the day and I wrote many programs in it that I sold. Not on the scale of TempWorks but for a 10yr old it wasn't bad money. Back then I didn't have to worry about networking layers or multi-threading on multi-core machines.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 20, 2009

One branch manager was a backstabbing dragon lady, kept her cards held tight and took credit for everything. The other was altruistic to the core, always crediting her staff or her great payroll department. Which one got laid off when the budget cuts hit? Great discussion going on along these lines at Slashdot. StaffingTalk take: nice guys aren’t always as nice as they seem and the bad guys might not be bad, they may just not be into you that much.

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